The Digital Trends for Data-Driven Markets in 2015 & Beyond

Top marketing trends for social, mobile, advertising, and digital analytics, according to Teradata's Michael Lummus.

Digital channels represent 25% of today's total marketing budgets, and with the adoption of smartphones, digital commerce, and growth of social networks, digital marketing spend is expected to grow to one third by 2017, says Michael Lummus, director of digital marketing solutions at Teradata.

Big data will represent $50 billion in spending in the US alone, with a lot of the use cases driven by marketing and digital. Teradata's international survey of 400 enterprise digital marketers found an upward trend in digital marketing budgets, and a slight decrease in more traditional offline channels.

The rise of digital channels comes with its own challenges as they can be difficult to integrate with existing systems. Integration is essential to communicating across departments, and focusing the business in support of strategy, be it customer centricity or operational alpha.

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